Liberal Education Quotes

31 quotes by 29 authors

• I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education. — Tallulah Bankhead
• That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his… — Thomas Huxley
• Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always… — Alfred Whitney Griswold
• Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the… — Angelina Grimke
• A liberal education will impart an awareness of the amazing and precious complexity of human relationships. Since those relationships are violated more often out of… — Sidney Hook
• The teaching of any science, for purposes of liberal education, without linking it with social progress and teaching its social significance, is a crime against… — Chris Carter
• Man's knowledge of science has clearly outstripped his knowledge of man. Our only hope of making the atom servant rather than master lies in education,… — Unknown Author
• To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard to the history… — John Quincy Adams
• A liberal education rests on the assumption that nature and human nature do not change very much or very fast and that one therefore needs… — Wendell Berry
• We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of… — Henry David Thoreau
• I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene — David McCullough
• The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father… — Taslima Nasrin
• Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education. — Alana Stewart
• Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity. — Ellen Key
• I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to… — Yi-Fu Tuan
• Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but… — Aldo Leopold
• To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal… — Joseph Joubert
• Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal… — Richard Steele
• A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

Who Wrote These Liberal Education Quotes

29 authors contributed a total of 31 Liberal Education Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Liberal Education Quotes by John Adams
• 2 Liberal Education Quotes by Tallulah Bankhead
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by David McCullough
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Taslima Nasrin
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Alana Stewart
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Ellen Key
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Yi-Fu Tuan
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Aldo Leopold
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Joseph Joubert
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Richard Steele
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by A. Bartlett Giamatti
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Sydney J. Harris
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Matthew Henry
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Woodrow Wilson
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by George Seldes
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Tony Judt
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Charles William Eliot
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Robert M. Hutchins
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Thomas Huxley
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Alfred Whitney Griswold
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Angelina Grimke
• 1 Liberal Education Quote by Sidney Hook